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I’m willing to stipulate that Segarra Spousal Unit in dealing with Section 8 tenants indeed has contracts with the Housing Authority. As I understand it, this would trigger Municipal requirement that Segarra report to the Ethics guys. He “failed” to do so.
But, what do we conclude from that? There’s no evidence that his “failure” was deceitful rather than inadvertent. The contract’s language along with the funding come from the Feds. It is understandable that one make a mistake, fail to interpret the situation as a contract with the City. Let Segarra amend the financial report, recommend that he be more careful in the future, and wrap it up. On the other hand, if the reporting requirements specifically include the Housing Authority, take the extra fact-finding step to look for malfeasance. Look for evidence that Segarra used his position(s) to get favorable treatment for Unit in dealing with Housing Authority, for example, Segarra got lax inspection of Unit’s properties? Or, for example, that he arranged for Housing Authority to pay inflated rents to Unit? But, to date, no whiff of malfeasance to my nose, just political opponents trying to get us to jump to conclusions.